#bhi

[notaplaceofhonour]

Every interaction I’ve ever had or seen with a Black Hebrew Israelite convinces me they know on some level that the “Black people are the real Jews” line is bullshit, and their insistence on it is far more about hurting or upsetting Jews than any sincere belief in their heritage

you could be forgiven for thinking Kanye’s shock-jock Nazi thing is an outlier, but no, other BHIs I’ve personally dealt with and seen are just as smug and ragebaity about it

[askjumblr]

do yall consider black israelites jewish or are they their own thing?? i know next to nothing about judaism and we (black people, at least myself and people i'm close with) just kinda see them as their own fringe religion/some form of hoteps, but from the outside looking in they seem at least jewish-adjacent, if that makes sense

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[spot-the-antisemitism]

https://www.tumblr.com/akonoadham/773487996270936065?source=share

idk if that counts as antisemitism? but it still makes me feel off

it's been the banner of the Hebrew tag for days now

this is a Black Hebrew Israelite dogwhistle hence the Hebrew tag

notice that these not Beta Israel Jews but African Americans which is what BHI believes are the only Jews hence why they were taken as slaves and other Africans weren't

Synagogue of Satan is used to say Jews are Satanic Demons sent to Earth to subvert Christians or controll the word when the original is saying Jews are bad if they don't follow Christ

the gospel writers were equally antisemitic but they were antisemitic in different ways

[heebiegeebee]

Given all the discussion re: Pesach and black jews, i want to tell a brief story from years back.

I was a helper at my friends' wedding. The photographer, who i had spent the last few days on and off with as we prepared for said wedding, sat next to me at the reception as we let our feet dangle in the hot tub. Feeling we had succeeded in giving our mutual friends their best day ever, we breathed a sigh and high fived, where i noticed for the first time i was seeing him with rolled up sleeves.

"oh hey! Is that a hebrew tattoo?"

"yeah!"

"oh shiiiiiiit! Dude thats so dope, i had no idea you were jewish! Thats so cool you know hebrew, too... My family was never able to send us to hebrew school, so i never learned it. Whats it say?"

I was able to see the joy fade from his eyes at my excitement. He told me what it said, in lowered, more direct tones. I cant recall what it was, but after he told me, he excused himself and avoided me the rest of the night and the extra day i was there. It didnt dawn on me until i was back home...

...he was BHI.

[hindahoney]

Let's talk about appropriation of Judaism, and hijacking Jewish history

"According to Halacha, Jews who abandon their Jewishness by choice become 'meshumadim' (An example being messianic "jews" of Jewish ancestry). Though Jewish by lineage, they cannot claim any privilege pertaining to Jewish status. To make it simple: if we don't claim you, you don't get to claim us."

Credit: insta user @rootsmetals

[dikleyt]

I think it's best to understand the rhetoric of BHI, spread via Kanye most recently, as a manifestation of Christian supersessionism. It's one of the oldest anti-Jewish doctrines: that Jews no longer exist, Christians are our successors, and we are the "synagogue of Satan."

In a sense it's banal. Just about every ethnicity has a cult of people claiming their ethnicity is the real Jews/Hebrews/Israelites, and this is rooted in something fairly universal to Christianity, the idea that Christians have replaced Jews.

[fleshmongler]

Pale's been getting real scary again! While I was brainstorming what is going to happen next in the story (I've finished 9.5, the ending of which made me shocked beyond belief), in the meantime I thought it'd be fun to do some color coding of the locations featured in Pale! Which so far, not counting realms, have been Kennet and the BHI. I consider the BHI to be coded with blues and purples, and Kennet to be coded with yellows and reds. I also included a bonus sketch of what being an innocent is like in Kennet. Perhaps also a bit of a Montague sketch? I dunno.